Ani-me

Ani-me
On Mona's epic Rejaw thread Andrew asked a Photoshop question about retouching photos and I gave him a bit of advice. I decided to play with it myself as well because it's been a while. I turned myself into an anime character with a bit of "nip and tuck" (or bloat and pucker!) with Photoshop's Liquify. Is it freaky or what?

And my tips to Andrew if you want to try your own:

  • Lindsay Donaghe

    Andrew, I saw part of the response to your photo retouch question last night and then rejaw crapped out... If you want to do nip and tuck kind of stuff use Filter->Liquify. If you want do do something more macro to, say, correct a fisheye lens type exaggeration, use the Barrel Distortion property on Filter->Distort->Lens Correction.

  • Andrew Trinh

    Oh thanks Lindsay, I'll have a go at it now.

  • Lindsay Donaghe

    The Liquify filter is fun to make anime-like distortions of people. :)

  • Andrew Trinh

    I'm not so good at this nip/tuck business. The skin textures are starting to distort. :P

  • Lindsay Donaghe

    The trick is to use the bloat and pucker tools and just click here and there... don't hold down the mouse for more than a click or it will go wonky.

  • Lindsay Donaghe

    oh, and it's also a good idea to make some adjustments and then exit the filter and duplicate your layer before you make some more... you can't undo more than once in the filter so if you get to something you like then best to "save" it at that point by duplicating the layer and then making more changes.

  • Andrew Trinh

    Thanks for the pointers, I'll have to give it some more practice later. It's a bit too early to right now (2:37 AM). ;) I'm off!


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